China’s Huawei is the biggest telecoms equipment manufacturer in the world, which doesn’t make it too popular with some suspicious American politicians. In terms of mobiles it’s a challenger brand though and so WPP’s ‘Team Huawei'(you just knew there’d be ...

Giving a snare drum a good whack never did anyone any harm – on Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone (the moment Bob went electric) it’s been described as “kicking open the door to your mind.” Phil Collins’ In The ...

Here’s another ‘unsung hero’ of the movie business forom Brothers and Sisters for cinema advertising contractor Pearl & Dean. Pearl & Dean, with its iconic music, is still synonymous with the great age of cinema and B&S has produced an ...

Channel 4 CEO David Abraham has shown a sure touch since he took over in 2010, even his decision to ditch Big Brother, its biggest ratings winner, now doesn’t look quite so daft. But he may be wondering exactly what ...

That Maurice Levy is such a tease. The Maurice Chevalier of French advertising (below) has told a Goldman Sachs conference in New York that Publicis Groupe may announce a new CEO as early as November even though he’s not stepping ...

Legacy publishers are racing to become something else in the digital era and Centaur Media, owner of Marketing Week and Creative Review, is venturing into new territory by buying pitch consultancy Oystercatchers. Oystercatchers, founded by Suki Thompson and Peter Cowie ...

George Parker continues his tale of the world’s most shagorifically expensive TV shoot – for British biscuit brand McVitie’s..   ..All too soon it was time to hit the road for “The Other Merida” in the north of Venezuela. The ...

VCCP, now owned by Providence Equity and WPP following the £374m buyout of Chime Communications, is spreading its wings with the launch of a New York outpost. The move comes via Muhtayzik Hoffer, the San Francisco agency it bought in ...

the American 4A’s agency trade body is still at loggerheads with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), pulling out of an ANA panel on ‘transparency’ at Advertising Week in New York next week, preferring to do its own thing at ...

Wieden+Kennedy has done its best to revive the food porn formula for Lurpack and it’s back again, advising cooks across the nation to “strap on your aprons and reach for the Lurpak.” This time by taking a pot shot at ...